Re: 64bit hardware suggestions?
Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>
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"Pete Ryland" <[email protected]> writes: > Why do you want 64-bit specifically? It just needs more RAM and disk space > per VM On most architectures you would be right; on x86, because of the increased size of the register file and other CPU enhancements the performance difference is effectively zero for most use cases. > and most stuff has less testing than the 32-bit versions. That isn't true: Linux has been running on 64-bit systems for a lot longer than amd64 has been around, so most software is fairly well tested on the 64-bit architecture. The only common problem, these days, is the handful of proprietary software companies who don't release a 64-bit version of their binary-only stuff. Also, notably, you can just run a 32-bit OS inside the VM, at which point you get all the benefits (and drawbacks) of a 32-bit x86 system. :) Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html